I've ended up using w/e for movement a lot. Also c for changing stuff (didn't see that in the original post). I use :s fairly extensively, although somebody pointed out that for a lot of the stuff I do with :s, recording a few actions with q would be much easier. Trying to use that every now and then.

In insert mode, there's also C-x C-f for autocompleting a file name, which is handy at times.

I defined space as the leader, and leader + j and k to be 10 j and k, respectively. Don't know how people handle moving up and down in Vim without something like that. { and } just don't quite cut it, IMHO. Also jk for escape in insert mode, because who wants to reach for escape or one of the control equivalents all the time?

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Not bad, but my finger are already over j and k. This also causes me to occasionally type random jks into inferior text editors.

I like the idea, but that would take me a lot of retraining to start using properly. (For some sequences, I still occasionally reach for the "normal" escape key afterwards, despite having had the caps-lock remap for years.)

IIRC, remapping caps lock to escape is fairly simple under windows. (It's possible to do without third-part tools even, just with regedit.) MacOS on the other hand... It's doable with ukulele (which I typically want anyway, to get a sane keyboard layout), but I don't think there's an easy/quick way.